100 Skills a Man should know how to do.

This morning I fired up my computer at Cafe-d's and MSN popped up ... this head line caught my eye ... so here is how I'm doing.


Automotive
1. Handle a blowout YES
2. Drive in snow YES
3. Check trouble codes YES
4. Replace fan belt YES
5. Wax a car YES
6. Conquer an off-road obstacle YES
7. Use a stick welder NO
8. Hitch up a trailer YES
9. Jump-start a car YES

Emergencies
10. Perform the Heimlich NO
11. Reverse hypothermia NO
12. Perform hands-only CPR NO
13. Escape a sinking car YES

Home
14. Carve a turkey YES
15. Use a sewing machine NO
16. Put out a fire YES
17. Home-brew beer NO
18. Remove bloodstains from fabric YES
19. Move heavy stuff YES
20. Grow food YES
21. Read an electric meter YES
22. Shovel the right way YES
23. Solder wire YES
24. Tape drywall YES
25. Split firewood YES
26. Replace a faucet washer YES
27. Mix concrete YES
28. Paint a straight line YES
29. Use a French knife YES
30. Prune bushes and small trees YES
31. Iron a shirt YES
32. Fix a toilet tank flapper YES
33. Change a single-pole switch YES
34. Fell a tree YES
35. Replace a broken windowpane YES
36. Set up a ladder, safely YES
37. Fix a faucet cartridge YES
38. Sweat copper tubing NO
39. Change a diaper YES
40. Grill with charcoal YES
41. Sew a button on a shirt YES
42. Fold a flag YES

Medical
43. Treat frostbite NO
44. Treat a burn YES
45. Help a seizure victim NO
46. Treat a snakebite YES
47. Remove a tick YES

Military Know-How
48. Shine shoes YES
49. Make a drum-tight bed NO
50. Drop and give the perfect pushup NO

Outdoors
51. Run rapids in a canoe YES
52. Hang food in the wild YES
53. Skipper a boat YES
54. Shoot straight YES
55. Tackle steep drops on a mountain bike NO
56. Escape a rip current YES

Survival
57. Build a fire in the wilderness YES
58. Build a shelter YES
59. Find potable water YES

Surviving Extremes
60. Floods YES
61. Tornados YES
62. Cold YES
63. Heat YES
64. Lightning YES

Teach Your Kids
65. Cast a line NO
66. Lend a hand YES
67. Change a tire YES
68. Throw a spiral YES
69. Fly a stunt kite YES
70. Drive a stick shift YES
71. Parallel park YES
72. Tie a bowline NO
73. Tie a necktie NO
74. Whittle YES
75. Ride a bike YES

Technology
76. Install a graphics card YES
77. Take the perfect portrait YES
78. Calibrate HDTV settings NO
79. Shoot a home movie YES
80. Ditch your hard drive YES

Master These Key Workshop Tools
81. Drill driver YES
82. Grease gun YES
83. Coolant hydrometer YES
84. Socket wrench YES
85. Test light YES
86. Brick trowel YES
87. Framing hammer YES
88. Wood chisel YES
89. Spade bit YES
90. Circular saw YES
91. Sledge hammer YES
92. Hacksaw YES
93. Torque wrench YES
94. Air wrench YES
95. Infrared thermometer NO
96. Sand blaster YES
97. Crosscut saw YES
98. Hand plane YES
99. Multimeter YES
100. Feeler gauges NO

Well, 72 our of 100 ... is that a B Grade?

Have a great day

Daivd

Under / Over Leadership

I was doing some reading today on some blogs I enjoy and I came across this quoit.

"If you don't learn to lead under, you won't have as many opportunities to lead over."

The writer goes on to say .... "Your ability to lead others is directly related to your ability to follow others. Since God is the giver and the head of all authority, all people in an organization's chain of command—leaders and followers—must ultimately answer to God."

A story that comes to mind comes from the life of Jesus as is His encounter with a centurion whose servant was sick. The words of the centurion was not .... "Jesus, clearly You're in charge, clearly You are in authority—therefore, would You come heal my servant who's sick?" No, the words was you are a "man under authority." He say qualified to invoke healing power on his sick servant. Every authority is under authority. As leaders, we must challenge the process, but we must also work with the authorities that God has placed over us. And we dare not upset His plan for us by rebelling against the ones God has placed over us—whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Have a Great Day

David